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Locked In, Locked Out: How Data Breaches Shatter Refugees’ Safety

Posted on September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 by Dissent

Noura Aljizawi of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy writes: Rawia* is a Syrian activist in Turkey and a mother of three beautiful children. She kept her children at home, locked the doors, closed the windows, and told them not to speak loudly so people…

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Arrest made in NCA investigation into Transport for London cyber attack

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Dissent

A teenager has been arrested in Walsall by the National Crime Agency, as part of the investigation into a cyber security incident affecting Transport for London (TfL). The 17-year-old male was detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences in relation to the attack, which was launched on TfL on 1 September. The NCA is…

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Malta’s Prime Minister Announces Legal Reform To Safeguard Ethical Hacking

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Dissent

Tim Diacono reports: Prime Minister Robert Abela announced plans to update the law to safeguard and regulate the practice of ‘white hat’ ethical hacking. In an interview on ONE this morning, Abela warned that a gap exists in the country’s legislative framework surrounding ethical hacking and cybersecurity. The Malta Digital Innovation Authority has drafted proposed…

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Ex-Police Scotland employee charged with 44 data breaches

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Dissent

Today’s reminder of the need to control and regularly audit employee access to personal information comes to us from Erin Maguire in Scotland: A FORMER member of Police Scotland staff is due to stand trial after she denied 44 charges of illegally accessing the personal data of dozens of people over a period spanning four…

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Free Russia Foundation to investigate data breach after internal documents published online

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Dissent

Novaya Gazeta Europe reports: One of Russia’s most prominent pro-democracy organisations, the Free Russia Foundation, announced that it was investigating a potential cyberattack on Friday, following a leak of thousands of emails and documents related to its work. On Thursday, Telegram channel SOTA reported that “more than 2,500 email chains and more than 13GB of…

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The Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill: Hong Kong’s first specific cybersecurity legislation

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Dissent Doe

Tommy Liu and Kenneth Cheung of Hogan Lovells write: In late June 2024, the Security Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government (the “Government”) proposed the first specific cybersecurity legislation in Hong Kong, tentatively entitled the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill (the “Bill”), to strengthen the security of the computer systems of critical…

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